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right-angles to our previous course when one of the men happened to look 

 behind him, and there was the tiger lying fully exposed in the hollow not 

 more than 30 yards away and just able to raise its head, a bullet through 

 which concluded the proceedings. I ought to mention that I had not the 

 slightest idea as to whether my bullets had taken effect or not, but rather 

 inclined to the belief that both shots had missed ; still it is always as well 

 to make certain, if possible, and it sometimes, as in this case, pays well 

 to do so. 



Just one more instance. In December, 1896, a tiger was wounded in a 

 beat, and, from certain indications, pretty badly. It lay up in a patch of 

 thick bush jungle with grass up to a man's chest. A gurgling moan was 

 distinctly audible for about a quarter of an hour after the animal was 

 wounded and then ceased. Pursuing the same tactics as before, an approach 

 to within 30 yards of where the tiger was supposed to be was gradually 

 achieved without result of any kind. From here a man spotted the body 

 from a tree. Stones having no effect, a nearer examination and more stoning 

 confirmed the native's surmise ; for the animal had been dead half an hour 

 or more. 



I had intended to have added other instances within my personal knowledge 



regarding armed beaters walking up a wounded animal as recommended 



in the Badminton Library, and the question of stopping a charge, but the 



present article has reached such an unexpected length that these must be 



deferred to some future occasion. 



J. H. VANDEKZEE, Lieut., 



Indian Staff Corps, 

 Sadon, Upper Bcjkma, July, 1897. 



No. XVI— FOWLS KILLED BY TICKS. 



The serial Indian Museum Notes, issued by the Trustees of the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, Vol. IV, No. 2, contains the following information 

 regarding the ticks which killed a number of fowls belonging to the late 

 Mr. N. S. Symons, in Bandra, during March and April, 1895 : — 



" On the 14th April, 1895, numerous living specimens of a tick were 

 forwarded to the Indian Museum by Mr. H. M. Phipson, with the information 

 that they were infesting fowls to the extent of killing them, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Bombay. The ticks proved to be new to the Indian Museum 

 collection, so specimens were submitted to Mr. A. D. Michael for his 

 examination. Mr. Michael, in a letter dated 16th May, 1895, wrote : — ' The 

 ticks which you send are the common Arcjas refiexus of Fabricius. I think 

 the Argas persicus of Fischer of Waldheim is really the same species ; 

 if there be any distinction, probably your specimens would be considered 

 to be A. persicus, but I do not believe that there is. The species seems 

 to be distributed practically over all temperate and tropical countries where 



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